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Authentication is one of the most important parts of any computer system, application or network. Without an adequate authentication method a network operating system will quickly become overloaded and insecure. In the early days of computers a simple username and password would be sufficient, and although this is still the case in many networks more…

Kerberos is one of the most important authentication systems available to developers and network architects. It’s aim is simple – to provide a single sign on to an environment comprising of multiple systems and protocols. Kerberos therefore allows mutual authentication and importantly secure encrypted communication between both users and systems. It’s different too many…